Well that didn't take long. After finalizing the purchase of beleaguered mobile tech company Palm back on the first of July, Hewlett Packard has already filed the company's first patent under the banner of their new acquisition.
Making good on their promise to produce a webOS tablet, HP has filed a trademark application for the name PalmPad. According to Engadget, the patent filing was uncovered by the vigilant bloggers over at PreCentral.
It'll be interesting to see how things pan out with this one, as HP has been upping their game in the face of the growing popularity of other PC manufacturers such as Acer, and Apple's tremendous success in the mobile market with the iPad. Back in April, HP killed off the launch of their Windows 7 Slate tablet after stating that they were not satisfied with the performance of the OS on the device. Will HP's newly acquired webOS be able to gain traction in a mobile market that at this time belongs to iOS and Android? We'll have to wait and see.
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